The Shadow Alchemist
By: endmylifeatTwilight15
CHAPTER ONE
Me: Ps. I DON'T OWN FMA OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT JUST THE IDEAS! Though I wouldn't mind owning Ed. starts daydreaming
Ed: DO WHAT NOW????
Me: oh well. Here's chap one.
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(Edward Elric's POV)
I took the steps to the main doors of the Head Quarters two at a time. When I opened the door I heard someone yell, "Hey, The pipsqueak is back from his latest assignment." "SHUT UP, HAVOC!" I yelled back at him.
With that, I walked down the hall towards Colonel Mustang's office. I pushed the doors open with a bang and flung the assignment report down on Roy's desk. "Fullmetal, just the alchemist I was looking for." Roy stated calmly.
"What for this time?" I barked harshly. "I need a favor along with this assignment. You feel up to a challenge?" Roy asked me. "Depends on what you're talking about." I barked out. "Well, damn. This one proves the old saying the dog's bark is worse than his bite." A calm voice stated.
(Shadow's POV)
I waited for the reaction to my little comment from the shrimp in front of me that hadn't even noticed my entrance. His brother did though. The Fullmetal Alchemist turned around slowly. "Are you implying that I am harmless?" He asked through gritted teeth. "Nope. Just implying that you're louder than you are harmful." I replied.
"Edward, this is the favor. The newest member of the Military Alchemists." Roy explained. "So, you're the boy I've heard so much about. Edward Elric, The fullmetal Alchemist. Age, 16. Right arm and left leg are automail. Little brother's soul sealed away in a suit of armor." I listed off the information I knew on these two.
"Ok. You know who we are. Now, who the hell are you?" Ed demanded. "My name is Shadow. I'm the Shadow Alchemist. I'm 16 as well. No family though." I answered. "Roy, how does this favor involve this girl?" Ed asked. "Well. The favor I'm asking of you is to take her as a partner for assignments." Roy explained.
"NOT ONLY NO BUT HELL NO!!!" Ed yelled extremely loud. "Why not?" Roy asked. "Because she's a useless girl." Ed declared. "Oh really? Shadow show him how useless you are." Roy ordered. "Ok." I said. I clapped my hands and touched the floor and suddenly a stone post threw Edward Elric. "SHIT!" He yelled as he landed behind Roy's desk.
"I'll take her on as a partner when hell freezes over." Ed replied standing up. "Ed, Roy isn't asking that you take me on as a partner that you like. Hell, hate me if you want but one way or another I will be leaving on a mission with you and your brother." I explained. "NO!" Ed stated firmly. "Tell you what, Ed, you accept me as a partner and I'll make sure you get double the money and you get some time off to look for the stone. Do we have a deal?" I asked.
"Brother. That's a good deal." Al stated from where he was standing. Ed looked me over. "How can I be sure you won't back out of the deal?" He asked. "Roy, make sure these two get my money for the assignment and my vacation period." I ordered. Roy nodded. I looked back at Ed. "It's a done deal. We'll leave tomorrow morning then." I said turning and walking out of the office.
(Later that night)
I was walking down the hall when I heard a familiar voice. I stopped by the vent through which the voice was coming. 'This ought to be funny.' I thought to my self.
"Al, I'm telling you. Having her as a partner is a bad idea." The first voice said. "I don't know, brother. She was pretty strong and she was nice." A second voice said. 'At least Al likes me a little.' I thought. "Yeah, she was nice…" Ed said pausing. 'Ok. Maybe Ed's coming round.' I thought. "To you, Al. Or did you miss the part where she threw me over Mustang's desk?" Ed finished. "Ok, you're right, but I still think we could use some help. I mean I really can't use alchemy and just hitting a homunculus, doesn't really help. Having her on the team would be a helpful, if not good, thing." Al explained. "Fine, but I'm not talking to her." Ed declared. 'Score.' I thought walking down the hall.
(The next morning)
I met them at the front doors. "Good morning." I said. "Good morning to you to Miss Shadow." Al said. "Please just call me Shadow." I asked. "Ok." Al replied. "Ok. Hey Ed. I know you're not going to talk to me because of what I did yesterday, but I just wanted to say that I was sorry. I really took it overboard throwing you like that." I said to Ed.
Ed looked surprised. I turned to Al and asked, " Shall we head to the train station? I believe our train in going to leave in half an hour." "Uh. Brother, I guess she's right." He said to Ed. Ed just nodded and looked like he was thinking something over. So, I led the way to the train station. When we got there I bought two donuts and a cup of coffee. I gave one donut to Ed and drank my coffee. I was just noticing that Ed was some where around five foot four. (He grew. Yay. He was such a shrimp. Ed: DIE YOU EVIL WOMAN! ME: Epp run away from the shorty.) 'He's the same height as me.' I thought. He was eying the cup of coffee. "Don't even think about it shorty. We wouldn't want to stunt your growth any more. Anyway you wouldn't like the way I fix my coffee." I stated. "Why wouldn't I like it?" He questioned. "I use a crap load of milk, and sugar and just a dash of chocolate coffee liquor." I stated before taking a gulp of coffee. "How the hell did you get…" Ed started before I shoved his donut in his mouth. "The wise keep a tight lip in cases involving me and liquor." I suggested with an evil glint in my eye. "ALL ABOARD! THE TRAIN FOR RISIBLE (totally made up.) IS LEAVING THE STATION IN APPROXIMATELY TWO MINUTES!" The conductor hollered. "Oh. That's our train, isn't it?" I inquired. Al nodded. We got on the train and prepared for a long uneventful ride. Unless, of course, you consider me and Ed making fun of each other for the entire ride.
(Roughly two long hours later.)
I jumped off the train. "Well. That was fun. So, what exactly is our assignment?" I asked expectantly. "Inspection." Ed mumbled. "Oh. Is that all?" I inquired. He nodded. "Then when we're done, can we go see my friend slash sister?" I asked with puppy eyes.
(Ed's POV)
I looked at her. She was doing the puppy eyes thing. 'Wow. I've never noticed she had aqua colored eyes before. They really go well with her long brown hair. WAIT! What the hell am I thinking?' I thought. "Sure. I guess we could go see your friend after we're done with the assignment." I reluctantly said. "YES!! Oh thank you. Thank you." Shadow said and then she hugged me. "Oops. Sorry." She muttered backing up and blushing. "Um. No prob. We should probably go and find a hotel." I replied and she nodded.
(Shadow's POV)
'Why the hell did I hug him??? He hates me. And what was with the 'No prob'? Was he actually being nice and he's blushing. Whoa. What will Meg say when I drag these two in? Oh God. I'm in for the boyfriend comments again. Why do I get myself into these situations?' My mind was going about a mile a second. I followed Ed and Al.
"Hey Shadow, are you ok?" Al asked. "Hmm. What? Oh. I'm fine. Just thinking something through." I explained as Al dropped back to where he was walking beside me. "You know, brother doesn't hate you." He said. "Oh yes, he does. I heard you two talking last night. Sorry." I muttered the last thing. "Vent outside our room?" Al asked. "Yep but how did you know?" I asked. "I saw you walking down the hall and I've always known that we can be heard through the vent." Al explained. "Oh. Ok." I sighed. Suddenly, my stomach growled.
Ed turned to look at me. "Hungry?" He asked. I nodded. "Well hurry up the faster we get a room the sooner we eat." He teased. "Ok. How about a race then?" I asked. Ed looked me over. "You're on." He said. "Alright. Al, say go." I said. "Ah, go?" Al said uncertainly. Both Ed and I shot off leaving Al in the dust. "Hey guys. Wait up." Al yelled running behind us.
When Al got to the hotel he saw Ed and me standing there panting. "Who won?" He asked. I pointed at Ed and Ed pointed at me. "You tied?" Al asked. That's when we noticed we were pointing at each other. "Shadow, you were ahead of me by like five feet." Ed said. "Yeah but I tripped you, shrimp." I stated. "DON'T CALL ME A SHRIMP!" Ed yelled. "Fine, but we need to get rooms and go eat before I die." I complained. "Ok." Ed said. We walked in and we rented two rooms. One for the boys. One for me. "Ok. Time to eat." I said pushing open their door. "Ok. Ok. Chill." Ed said walking out with Al in tow. So we set off the find food.
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Me: Hio. This is my first fanfic on this website so please be nice to me.
Ed: Or you could just beat her to a bloody pulp.
Me: EDWARD ELRIC! I'm going to beat you to a bloody pulp.
(Punches Ed and loses intrest in the weakling.)
Me: ok I know she doesn't know me but I would like to thank animefan127 (I think that was what it was) I read her fma stories and decided to write my own. So Ty, animefan127. Whelp. This is chap one I'll try to get chap 2 out soon. Bye bye.